Lily Waddy (Year 4) has written this great review of Kate Saunders’ The Belfry Witches.

I loved The Belfry Witches it’s a great story, but I don’t thin many people would have read it. Here is the blurb:

Meet old Noshie and Skirty Marm – the naughtiest witches in the world!

Old Noshie and Skirty Marm have committed a terrible crime. They’ve sung a very rude song about the Queen of the Witches. Now they are to be banished from Witch Island forever! But where can they go?

The sleepy village of Tranters End is about to become home to two wacky witches, a cat who tells VERY big fibs – and a whole lot of trouble.

As you can see this book is about two very naughty witches named Old Noshie and Skirty Marm. Old Noshie is quite short and plump, while Skirty Marm is tall and very skinny. They do seem to have quite weird names at first but you get used to them!

I really liked this book because it was a mix of tragedy and happiness.

Whenever I read it, I had anticipation inside me and I didn’t like it when I had to stop reading.

It might have an ordinary start but the book soon gets very exciting. To those of you who don’t know what it’s about here is the plot in brief:

It’s about a plain girl called Opal Plumstead with a boring life, but it soon all changes when her beloved father goes to prison for forging a cheque at work. Opal is forced to give up her school scholarship and go to work at the Fairy Glen sweet factory. She makes friends with the factory owner, Mrs Roberts, and from there, it just gets better and better.

I really recommend that you read the book.

Notes:Opal Plumstead is written by Jacqueline Wilson, and it’s her 100th book.